[gentoo-user] cannot open display

2019-08-31 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people, For a specific time I have a very strange behaviour on gentoo. I cannot start any applicaion on xfce, just logout or shutdown the machine. When I try through an existing open shell to execute a program I get this error: tamer@tux / $ firefox-bin No protocol specified Error: cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Any chance to "unpack" or install a ppa-package on Gentoo-Linux ?

2019-08-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Alarig, thanks for your help - I really appreciate it ! :) ;) Will see, whether I can find the according deb-package on the net and will take dbpkg then.. :) Have a nice weekend! :) Cheers! Meino On 08/31 01:48, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi, > > On sam. 31 août 08:03:03 2019, tu...@posteo.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Any chance to "unpack" or install a ppa-package on Gentoo-Linux ?

2019-08-31 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On sam. 31 août 08:03:03 2019, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > is there any way to unpack or install software, which is only > available as ppq-package, under GENTOO Linux? If you speak about the ubuntu ppa-packages (and not ppq) and if it’s still based on a debian repo scheme, you can use dpkg on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Any chance to "unpack" or install a ppa-package on Gentoo-Linux ?

2019-08-31 Thread tuxic
Hi, thanks for your help, Nils! :) Cheers! Meino On 08/31 01:33, Nils Freydank wrote: > Hi, > > no, as we are not able to guess what a ppq package even is. > > If you know what you have there search for something like > "unpack package from $Software linux", if you don't then try to guess it

Re: [gentoo-user] Any chance to "unpack" or install a ppa-package on Gentoo-Linux ?

2019-08-31 Thread Nils Freydank
Hi, no, as we are not able to guess what a ppq package even is. If you know what you have there search for something like "unpack package from $Software linux", if you don't then try to guess it by running file from sys-apps/file and search then. Good luck and may be the search foo be with you!